a fragment of eternity…

I love Marietta Diner.  I eat there once a week and it never disappoints.  It’s not a 4 star restaurants, just a very large Greek Diner (open 24/7).  You get generous portions and are guaranteed to be taking leftovers home.

The last time I was there I ordered the Beef Souvlaki with Greek Salad and Disco Fries (U.S. answer to Poutine), plus a slice of their Caramel Cake for dessert.   Yum.

Tags: food

Maybe I am old or old-school, maybe it’s my parents influence during my formative years, or maybe I just am anal, but proper spelling is important to me.

There was an article in Time Magazine entitled “Making an Arguement for Misspelling” which argues should we let spelling and grammatical errors slide? Good spellers, Smith says, should be able to go on writing as usual; those who find the current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong.

I personally don’t think they should let people slide by with variants. It’s not difficult to learn to spell correctly. I don’t know who is really to blame here. Is it the schools, the parents, the constant text-messaging done now? In part I blame spell-checkers on computers. I believe it makes a person lazy. I may not be perfect when it comes to grammar and sentence structure, but I damn well make sure that I spell correctly. It’s a pet peeve of mine — so much so that I have been dubbed “the spelling Nazi”.

It’s amazing how many misspelled words I can find on websites — websites like CNN, Time, BBC, etc. Currently I am reviewing resumes for a position at my place of employment. So far roughly 90% of the resumes have spelling errors in them. Of that 90%, a great majority of them are formatting disasters.

So what do you think? Should we let bad spelling slide?

Tags: star wars, video

i have decided to re-design this website to be a blog.  still some tweaks to be done, but it will be a work in progress.

a first — i didn’t cook for Thanksgiving, nor did I visit family. with one roommate gone to his family for t-day, me and my other roommate went to whole foods and got hot plates of thanksgiving food to take home and eat. it was inexpensive (which is good in my current state of lack of wealth).

note to self: banana cream pie induces nightmares!

Today I made from scratch (well okay, I followed a recipe) for Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread.  I added Habaneros to the mix, as well as cilantro and basil.  It turned out pretty good.  We had a departmental Thanksgiving luncheon that was pretty delicious.  Everyone brought in a homemade dish or two. I am quite stuffed.

Everytime I hear the Immigrant Song, by Led Zeppelin, I automatically think of the Viking Kittens. Click the link! The kittens are rocking it out